comédie

See also: comedie

French

Alternative forms

comœdie (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French comedie, from Latin cōmoedia, from Ancient Greek κωμῳδία (kōmōidía), from κῶμος (kômos, “revel, carousing”) + either ᾠδή (ōidḗ, “song”) or ἀοιδός (aoidós, “singer, bard”), both from ἀείδω (aeídō, “to sing”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /kɔ.me.di/
Audio (file)
Rhymes: -i
Homophone: comédies

Noun

comédie f (plural comédies)

comedy (genre of theatre, film, television etc.)
Synonym: comique
acting, playacting

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Greek: κομεντί (komentí)
→ Persian: کمدی (komedi)
→ Romanian: comedie
→ Turkish: komedi

Further reading

“comédie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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